What's So Great About Ushas?

Jeff Wilson · 10 Jul 2008, 17:37 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:37:39 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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Paul B wrote:
> It seems like you're challenging point 1.)
> However, remember that the Hierogrammates have performed stellar 
> engineering, and have the ability to time travel to boot.  They are not 
> likely to be resource constrained, and they are shown to be able to 
> evacuate Urth as further proof.  The examples you give are only 
> interesting in a constrained scenario.

Okay, they evacuate everyone from Urth, then what? Where do they put the 
people? How do they get out of being responsible for them until the end 
of time? If they are responsible for them until the end of time, how do 
they justify withholding special treatment for the other zillion worlds 
of humanity? It's the problem of Israel all over again.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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